Hamayun Jilali came to Canada from Pakistan in 2007. When his wife, Humara, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2013, it had metastasized to her lungs. Their daughter was a teenager and their son two-years old when Humara died in 2014. Hamayun lives in Brampton, Ontario.

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